Postdoctoral Research Associate - Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience
- Employer
- KINGS COLLEGE LONDON
- Location
- London (Greater) (GB)
- Salary
- Grade 6: £38,304 per annum, including London Weighting Allowance
- Closing date
- 25 Jan 2021
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- Academic Discipline
- Psychology, Social Sciences
- Job Type
- Research Related, Research Associate
- Contract Type
- Fixed Term
- Hours
- Full Time
Job Details
We are seeking a highly skilled, strongly motivated, postdoctoral researcher to work on questions related to lifespan cognitive development in large-scale datasets.
The research will be centred around the question of the impact of education on cognitive development, both early and later in life. The researcher will be encouraged to address the question from multiple methodological angles, using multiple datasets and techniques.
The role will be held within the SGDP Centre at the Denmark Hill Campus of King’s College London. It is an environment that emphasizes a great deal of interdisciplinary collaboration and the development of new methodologies. It will enable the researcher to develop and broaden their skills, collaborating with researchers in psychological development, behaviour genetics, brain imaging, and psychiatry. Support for pursuing fellowships and other career development opportunities will be provided.
The role will be funded by the Jacobs Foundation.
The post-holder will be responsible for designing, analysing and reporting research projects on the topic of education and cognitive development. Primary areas of research will be:
- Using large-scale datasets (e.g. birth cohort studies) to examine trajectories of cognitive change over the lifespan and their relation to education;
- Using causal designs (e.g. from econometric methodologies) to separate out true causal effects of education on multiple aspects of cognitive development;
- Using best-practice Open Science methodology (e.g. preregistration, code-sharing, RMarkdown, etc.) to document all the above studies with maximal transparency and reproducibility.
Each of these areas will require the post-holder to design studies, access relevant datasets, and answer relevant research questions. There will be flexibility for the applicant to focus on specific methodologies of their choice, but an interdisciplinary focus is strongly encouraged. The studies will build on excellent access to rich datasets from research cohorts from across the UK and beyond. These datasets include many different types of data that are relevant to answering the above questions; the post-holder will be encouraged to collaborate widely across the Institute for Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience to make maximal use of these datasets and implement research plans. The post-holder will contribute to dissemination activities through reports, academic papers and presentations.
Company
King's College London is one of the top 20 universities in the world and among the oldest in England. King's has more than 27,600 students (of whom nearly 10,500 are graduate students) from some 150 countries worldwide, and some 6,800 staff.
King's has an outstanding reputation for world-class teaching and cutting-edge research. In the 2014 Research Excellence Framework (REF) King’s was ranked 6th nationally in the ‘power’ ranking, which takes into account both the quality and quantity of research activity, and 7th for quality according to Times Higher Education rankings. Eighty-four per cent of research at King’s was deemed ‘world-leading’ or ‘internationally excellent’ (3* and 4*). The university is in the top seven UK universities for research earnings and has an overall annual income of more than £684 million.
King's has a particularly distinguished reputation in the humanities, law, the sciences (including a wide range of health areas such as psychiatry, medicine, nursing and dentistry) and social sciences including international affairs. It has played a major role in many of the advances that have shaped modern life, such as the discovery of the structure of DNA and research that led to the development of radio, television, mobile phones and radar.
King's College London and Guy's and St Thomas', King's College Hospital and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trusts are part of King's Health Partners. King's Health Partners Academic Health Sciences Centre (AHSC) is a pioneering global collaboration between one of the world's leading research-led universities and three of London's most successful NHS Foundation Trusts, including leading teaching hospitals and comprehensive mental health services. For more information, visit: www.kingshealthpartners.org.
King’s £600 million campaign, World questions|KING’s answers, has delivered huge global impact in areas where King’s has particular expertise. Philanthropic support has funded new research to save young lives at Evelina London Children’s Hospital; established the King’s Dickson Poon School of Law as a worldwide leader in transnational law; built a new Cancer Centre at Guy’s Hospital; allowed unique collaboration between leading neuroscientists to fast-track new treatments for Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, motor neurone disease, depression and schizophrenia at the new Maurice Wohl Clinical Neuroscience Institute; created the Cicely Saunders Institute: the first academic institution in the world dedicated to palliative care, and supported the King’s Sierra Leone Partnership in the Ebola crisis. Donations provide over 300 of the most promising students with scholarships and bursaries each year. More information about the campaign is available at www.kcl.ac.uk/kingsanswers.
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